New Smithsonian museum chronicling black history opens - WTOP Weekend Headlines - Saturday, September 24, 2016

A shining bronze beacon on the National Mall, the new National Museum of African American History and Culture will chronicle the complex relationship between the United States and a people it once enslaved. Thousands are expected to gather on the National Mall on Saturday to watch the nation’s first black president cut the ribbon to open the museum. [Logo] WEEKEND HEADLINES - September 24, 2016 [alt text here] [mobile-img] [alt text here] [New Smithsonian museum chronicling black history opens] A shining bronze beacon on the National Mall, the new National Museum of African American History and Culture will chronicle the complex relationship between the United States and a people it once enslaved. Thousands are expected to gather on the National Mall on Saturday to watch the nation’s first black president cut the ribbon to open the museum. [mobile-img] [alt text here] [Police hunt gunman who killed 5 at Washington state mall] BURLINGTON, Wash. 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